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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: chera on October 21, 2006, 11:24:46 PM

Title: Scientists create artificial retina on a chip
Post by: chera on October 21, 2006, 11:24:46 PM

Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a new silicon chip that could be "embedded directly into the eye and connected to the nerves that carry signals to the brain's visual cortex," reports New Scientist.

Previous attempts at artificial sight have often gone the route of using a video camera usually connected to a tiny computer to process the signal, which is then attached to the optic nerve. If Penn's research works, it would let this chip be directly implanted into the eye - with a direct connection to the optic nerve - removing the need for an external camera. (http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn10340&feedId=online-news_rss20)

I think both approaches are valid.  Artificial retinas for people with retinitis pigmentosa and detached retinas, and the addition of info directly onto the optical nerve for people who want Neuromancer-style VR or literal HUDs.

Title: Scientists create artificial retina on a chip
Post by: MooCow on October 22, 2006, 02:27:43 AM

i read this thread as "Scientists create artificial reina on a chip "

lol

Title: Scientists create artificial retina on a chip
Post by: Kira-sama on October 22, 2006, 05:34:43 PM

Quote from: MooCow

i read this thread as "Scientists create artificial reina on a chip "

lol

a chip that gives us the potentials of reina that we, human beings don't have? XD